Influenza transmission predictor

Host tropism prediction of influenza proteins and strains

Influenza host tropism

Majority of influenza A viruses reside and circulate among animal populations, seldom infecting humans due to host range restriction. Yet when some avian strains do acquire the ability to overcome species barrier, they might become adapted to humans, replicating efficiently and causing diseases, leading to potential pandemic. Further understanding and determining host tropism would be important in identifying zoonotic influenza virus strains capable of crossing species barrier and infecting humans. This website provides computational models for the prediction of influenza host tropism.

Prediction models for host tropism prediction of individual influenza proteins including glycoproteins HA and NA, nucleoprotein NP, both matrix proteins M1 and M2, both non-structural proteins NS1 and NS2, as well as the rest of the viral polymerase proteins PA, PB1, PB1-F2, and PB2.